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Monday, October 22, 2012

Hidden treasure

I did manage to spend a full afternoon out in the garden, weeding, cutting back and unearthing hidden treasure! This little area is so colorful, and deep under the branches there were hippeastrums flowering!

This little one is the first to flower and I hope will soon be followed by the huge, blowsy, over the top, striped ones that were so pretty last year.

Who needs to live in a country with "seasons" when I get fall colour throughout the year? This croton is really colorful, throughout the year.

I also noticed that the ground orchids have buds peeping up - oh great - I have not had any flowers since the lychee tree was pruned.

Once the sprawling tomato plants were staked up I discovered lots and lots of anthiriums just waiting to show their pretty colors.

These are the backbone of my garden, and just keep re-producing - the flowers last so long.

Gingers are shooting up from the ground and there is a bud on the sexy pink lady heleconia, so I think colour has come to stay in the garden.

14 comments:

Spring has definitely sprung in your garden. Everything looks so wonderful. You've certainly got lots of great colour. It's terrific to see the Ground Orchids starting to bloom again, and that little Hippie is beautiful. I'm drooling over your lush green grass too! Down here of course, it's Brownsville again at this time of year.

Bernie,I also have to realize that a lot of the plants are enjoying the sunshine after the lychee tree was pruned way back. It is all a balancing act isn't it? Oh we have had quite a bit of rain already....

Dearest Africanaussie,OMG, your garden is so colorful and it is really wonderful you are taking advantage of living where you are and enjoying these flowes♬♬♬I cannot wait to see your picture of the Ground Orchids, my friend♡♡♡Sending you lots of love and hugs from Japan to Australia, xoxo Miyako*

I love your garden, so many exotic, gorgeous plants and lush foliage. Coming from a garden that has four distinct seasons, I can tell you you're absolutely right about color....here we have three months of coaxed and prodded blooms and then nine months of snow. Well, ok, not nine months, but more like five months of brown and four months of snow. (Does that add up to twelve? Ack, it's Monday, and I can't do the math.)

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Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables, they probably get jet-lagged, just like people do - Elizabeth Berry

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" Philippians 4:6-7

The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more,

but in developing the capacity to enjoy less

- paraphrased from Socrates quote

“See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa

Nature in all its diversity grants us a glimpse into the heart of God the Father which is nothing but Love.

It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you seeHendry David Thoreau

Making a garden is not a gentle hobby for the elderly,to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole, and once it has done so he will have to acceptthat his life is going to be radically changed. May SartonPlant Dreaming Deep, 1983

When the trees sing,It doesn't really matterIf you know the song, Or if you know the words,Or even if you know the tune.What really matters is knowing ....That the trees are singing at all.Mattie Stepanek, 1990-2004

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walkor an evening saunter;to be thrilled by the stars at night:to be elated over a bird's nestor a wildflower in spring... these are some of the rewards of the simple life.John Burroughs, 1837-1921

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…”– Thoreau

“Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

You who walkmaybe with troubled thoughts....Come, enter here and restand may the sweet serenityof growing things....and the heavenly peacebe mirrored in thy soul.by Michael Palmer

Gods GardenThe Lord God planted a gardenIn the first white days of the world,And he set there an angel wardenIn a garment of light enfurled.So near to the peace of HeavenThat the hawk might nest with the wren,For there in the cool of the evenGod walked with the first of men.And I dream that these garden closesWith their shade and their sun-flecked sodAnd their lilies and bowers of roses,Were laid by the hand of God.The kiss of the sun for pardon,The song of the birds for mirth, -One is nearer God’s heart in a gardenThan anywhere else on earth.For He broke it for us in a gardenUnder the olive-treesWhere the angel of strength was the wardenAnd the soul of the world found ease.Dorothy Francis Gurney

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.Mary Jean Iron

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."~ John Lubbock******************************************************